GRANADA 1- BARCELONA 1 | Luuk de Jong is not enough

Barça returned to stay at the gates of the comeback in LaLiga. A triumph that he had in hand a minute before the end of the game escaped him in Granada, playing at an inferior position and ended up drawing (1-1) at Nuevo Los Cármenes a duel in which the Blaugrana team dominated, but did not know how to manage and that ended up charging for the usual mistakes. Namely: fragility in the areas and players out of shape squeezed ahead of time.

In their own area, every rival occasion is for Xavi’s team something like the prologue of a Russian drama from the 19th century; cEvery corner kick against is like a Dickens novel with orphaned children left in the snow; Each lateral foul is the story of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, which you know will end fatally due to accumulated incompetence, and each attack is so innocent, that only Luuk de Jong can be appealed to for success.

All of Barça’s offensive production was focused on the unjustly maligned Dutch striker (That someone speaks ill of Luuk with Dembélé next to him is a mystery of the incomprehensible human mind). De Jong scored a goal, another was annulled by his face and was about to emulate René Higuita reinventing the Scorpion Parade with a shot that had only been seen before Hugo Sánchez. Dembélé, on the other hand, spoiled everything he touched. Probably even the shower faucet in the locker room.

In Granada, Barcelona endured the work as long as it could against all odds. This is Un Granada, more than ordered, knew how to make the changes on time and exploit Barça’s weaknesses during the game. Barça tried to live off the production of Luuk, who once again made a Dembélé ridiculous at all levels, who you know yesterday on which planet he was and that when he was outnumbered, he collapsed before sight and the best changes from Robert Moreno, who on the ground surpassed Xavi.

Another thing is that When Gavi is Casemiro’s age, his faults will not be as punished as they are now. It may be a matter of the player, the system or the referees, who in certain young people have the trigger more than easy, but Gavi is the referee’s game of choice.

Xavi left at Nuevo Los Cármenes betting on a team that had the same full-backs that won the 2015 treble (seven years ago) with Alves and Alba on the wings. Piqué, who was also in Berlin that day as a center-back and Eric appeared as a newcomer to try to pressure a Granada that went out to hunt down Barça on the counter.

The domain of the game, at the beginning was culé. but the Barça fans still lack the ability to kill in the final meters to decide the game. Xavi went back to bet as battering ram for Luuk de Jong, who in the first part again claimed that his departure – more than sung from the club – is through the front door.

The striker on loan from Sevilla scored a goal at 8 minutes that was annulled by VAR after three minutes of reviewing a video that did not stop until he found a supposed offside of Gavi half a minute before the auction that leaves the theory of the new head of the apparatus, Medina Cantalejo, who said that the video arbitration from his recently inaugurated leadership would intervene as little as possible. From said to fact, there is a long way to go. The forward’s goal was annulled for an offside one of those that we have to look for an image to annul it that almost goes back to the arrival of the team to the city.

After trying again a magical spur goal, De Jong managed to score the 1-0 that gave an advantage to a Barça that was never impressive in the game despite dominating possession. Ter Stegen had to intervene to show that he has returned, but he could not prevent that at the exit of a corner Antonio Puertas shot him when Barça was at a disadvantage. Not only numerical, but scorer. Here, at the moment only Luuk marks.